Crafting Future Practice - Craft Scotland Conference

Crafting Future Practice:Adventures in design, digital and creative networks

Gillian Easson @gillianeasson

Digital channel to promote and develop a strong, active creative network

www.pechakucha.org

Creative clusters - real life events and opportunities to connect and showcase new and established talent

Designing new ways to engage with the city - crowd sourced downloadable guide

Digital place making - enabling pride in place and co-curation

57,943 views 95 countries 974 cities 3,000 posts

Creative city making

Future talk...

http://bit.ly/15917AX

Innovation doesn’t have to mean ‘new’.

The DIY maker revolution won’t do us all out of a job...

You don’t need to try and hang out everywhere...

mushroompackaging.com

Biomaterials aren’t just about printed meats - mushrooms matter too.

Future now: Design, innovation and creative thinking and its role in storytelling

Many forms of innovation and design processes...

http://bit.ly/15POMyF

STEFANO ROSSI

... everyone has their own individual story to tell.

Arlene Birt

www.backgroundstories.com

http://neomam.com

Makers are ace at visual communication!

What’s your story?

How can you tell it to the world? e.g. to customers, buyers, policy makers...

Over to you...

What’s Scotland’s craft sector story?

How can we celebrate our strengths in design, innovation and creative thinking

- and share this with the world?

Over to you...

Collective action - physical and digital networks

Carefully selected to curate and amplify

Why would you want to engage with digital channels and physical

communities in future?e.g. to reach markets, connect,

collaborate, sell work

Who do you want to reach?

Over to you...

What communities - physical and digital - do we need to better connect and share our collective stories and collaborative

action with the world?

What do they look like?

Over to you...

Thanks and please do keep in touch!

Gillian Easson @gillianeasson gillian@creativedundee.com